LIKES AND DISLIKES
Let us examine eight points of our common ‘likings’ and four of ‘dislikings’
as appended below:-
We like people:-
(i) who like
us.
(ii) who are
helpful, kind, thoughtful and considerate.
(iii)
who speak
well of others when they are not present.
(iv)
who can be
interested in things outside of themselves – that is, people who are not self-centered.
(v) who will
share our interests with us.
(vi) who inter
into the fun or cooperate in an activity with a good spirit.
(vii) who have a
jest for living.
(viii) who act
natural rather than try to “put on an act”.
We don’t like people:-
(i) who are
late for appointments, don’t keep their promises, or are otherwise not dependable.
(ii)
who are
argumentative and quarrelsome.
(iii)
who boast,
talk about themselves all the time, or monopolize the conversation.
(iv)
who are
too inquisitive about our personal business.
Won’t you ascertain that you are being liked by the others? But here,
let me caution you that what ever you do, some or other people are going to dislike
it. You can never think to be universally acceptable. So, I want you to inculcate
only those qualities in you that you like or don’t like in others, and then
leave every one free to feel whatever they like to feel. George Barnard Shaw,
in his office, got these lines painted on the wall:-
Keep these lines too in your mind. Don’t be too much submissive. Excess
in every thing is bad. Be reasonable, and be influenced by any idea if the same
is acceptable to your discriminative intellect. Be an INTELLECTUAL and not a
sentimental fool.
And
last but not least
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